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Digital Seed Grant 2019-2020 Awarded The Digital Seed Grant had an impressive amount of applications for its third year. The proposals received were of high quality and diverse in scope. The Digital Seed Grant Committee commends all the applicants on their proposed research or teaching projects. Due to the quantity and quality of proposals, the…

Announcing the call for Digital Seed Grant Awards The Digital Seed Grant competition for 2021-2022 is now open. Walker Library Digital Scholarship Initiatives invites proposals for seed grants to support individual or collaborative digital scholarship projects in research, teaching, or public outreach from any discipline or area at MTSU. The call for proposals (CFP) is…

Announcing the recently published Digital Scholarship Initiatives Highlights 2019-2020: A Digital Scholarship Center Assessment   The 6th annual DSI Highlights brochure summarizes the past year’s development (2019-2020). The brochure highlights initiatives lead by the MTSU Walker Library for the creation, access, dissemination, and preservation of digital and scholarly initiatives. Digital Scholarship Initiatives (DSI) Programs include…

Digital scholarship at Walker Library is interdisciplinary, collaborative, and committed. As a method, it emphasizes the use of interactive technologies to expand the participation, modes of access, diversity of analysis, and the dissemination, and preservation of scholarship. The frequently used term, digital humanities (DH), is a subset of digital scholarship (DS)–the larger umbrella of all…

The Spring 2020 Digital Workshops Series schedule is now available. Mark your calendar for the following topics. *All workshops are in LIB 272. Register to get a reminder email before the workshop and to help with program planning* Workshop Schedules below: Historical Newspapers Workshop • Thursday, February 20, 2020, 11:30am-12:20pm Interested in how to access…

Sanborn Maps Workshop UPDATE 3/12/20: THIS WORKSHOP HAS BEEN CANCELLED. Sanborn maps provide detailed information (location, size, construction materials) about buildings in towns across the U.S. dating back to the late 1800s to the 1940s. This hands-on workshop provides guidance on navigating through a digital collection of Sanborn maps of more than 100 towns in…

Historical Newspapers Workshop • Thursday, Februrary 20, 2020, 11:30am-12:20pm This session will cover how to access and search historical newspapers of the United States that are available online, either freely available or through MTSU Library’s subscriptions. Session topics: Determining what historical newspapers are online Search term tips (e.g., use of synonyms and terms in use…

Introduction to NVivo Workshop UPDATE 3/12/20: THIS WORKSHOP HAS BEEN CANCELLED. Have you begun conducting qualitative research, but are finding it difficult to keep your data organized? Would you like a better way to manage data analysis? If so, come learn the basics of NVivo 12, a software tool designed for the collection and analysis…

The Digital Seed Grant (dsi.mtsu.edu/dsgrant) had an impressive amount of applications for its second year (award period 2018-2019), which initially launched in 2016 for the award period of 2017-2018. Due to the quantity and quality of proposals, the Digital Seed Grant Review Committee and Dean of Libraries decided to award two grants for the 2018-2019…

Scholarly Publishing and Open Access Workshop • Tuesday, March 3, 2020, 11:30am-12:20pm Do you need to produce a peer-reviewed journal article? Come jump-start your scholarly writing with this presentation emphasizing the Open Access movement. Participants will receive instruction on the evolution of the scholarly publishing model as well as an overview of author publishing concerns.…